Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: 70 new text adventures are now online and available for playing — as a long-standing tradition continues. The 70 new games are the entries in the 28th annual Interactive Fiction Competition (now administered by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, a charitable non-profit corporation).
With wacky titles like “Lazy Wizard’s Guide” and “Elvish for Goodbye,” each game offers its own original take on the classic choice-based text adventures, sometimes augumented with ambient background noises and even music. Each of the 70 games has some kind of fanciful “cover art” — one even generated using OpenAI’s image-generating tool DALL-E.
And you’re invited to help judge the games! Just create an account, and then play and rate at least five of the game by November 15…
Slashdot first covered the competition back in 2004. (And in 2006, Slashdot editor Hemos called interactive fiction games “some of the best I’ve ever played.”) But this year the competition raised over $10,000 (so far!) to be distributed among the top two-thirds of entries, with the first-place finisher receiving $489 and each subsequent finisher receiving a little less, with the lowest-finishing prize recipient awarded $10. (And in addition, top entrants are each allowed to choose one prize from a pool of donations.)
Game on!
